Sentences with phrase «built in a football stadium»

The NCAA tournament is not won on a temporary court built in a football stadium in March but in sweaty gyms where kids who know Michael Jordan only as a small - market team owner work through the tropes of basketball success — hardship, effort, tricked - out Escalades — and adults hang on the decisions of high school juniors.

Not exact matches

But we also need to demonstrate to football fans that the things that attract them to a stadium on a Saturday afternoon can perhaps also be found in that old building at the end of their road on a Sunday morning.

But as I sit in my office and stare out the window at the Lakewood Church palace to Joel Osteen... and think about the brand - new multi-million dollar Catholic Cathedral in downtown Houston... and think about the fact that the University of Houston is about to tear down their perfectly good 35,000 seat football stadium to build a brand new $ 100M 40,000 seat football stadium... I really wonder why those three projects all qualify as «Charity.»

but «build your own stadium» won't happen and the fans have to stop bitching about not being in the I formation and accept modern football to be able to be a whole new Miami vs Jimmy Johnson's Miami.

Wenger was instrumental in the building of the stadium too as he has been in picking the team that plays his style of football — the Arsenal way.

Palmer is now second only to Harvard Stadium, built in 1903 and extensively renovated in 1982, as the oldest college football stadium in the country.

The youth experiment is what it always was, a cheaper way to build a team and make money to pay for the new stadium while still putting on an exhibition of good football in order to sell tickets and merchandise and the fans along with the business's that bought boxes in the stadium paid for a large chunk of it if not all.

With the assurance of regular football, a new stadium, a club looking to build a title - winning squad with young English players in abundance and a coach in Mauricio Pochettino who has proven his class and ability to improve young players, why would Alli leave?

Are some of you on here missing a few brain cells as fans There is nothing Arsenal or Wenger can do with the Sanchez situation He wants to leave and has been offered 400k a week in wages who in their right mind is going to turn that down as a player As for blaming wenger who has been our most successful manager helped us build a stadium gave us 20 years of cl football and some of the best teams the ol has seen Including the invincible and you all have the Gaul to trash the man as if he has done nothing for the club I suggest you should look at the plastic fans in the Arsenal blogs that have created a toxic atmosphere at the club They attack their own players in a daily basis why would any top player come to s club where the manager the owners and players are shamelessly attached constantly Yet Wenger wins trophies regularly even them that is derided Look at Spurs Liverpool they win fuk all every year yet their fans back then Look at yourselves and all the negativity that you have created striking the club before you blame Wenger for everything I have been a season ticket holder since the 70s and never have I seen our fanbase been so full of entitled morons who have stopped backing the club and constantly deride the club snd attack it We have the worst fanbase in football you have made this great club a lagging stock in world football All you now us fans constantly moaning If you don't like Arsenal fc then buy out kronke and run the club or fuk off and support someone else You won't be missed Coyg

The new seats — about 12,000 of them, which will bring the stadium's capacity to 44,500 — are being built because of the school's recent football success and because of the complaining of former coach Tom Coughlin, who thought Boston College could never become a big - time football operation while playing in a dinky stadium.

He carried this club during extremely dark times when we had limited funds building a massive new stadium and the unforeseen departure of our best players year after year, YET he still managed to keep us afloat in the Champions League whilst playing entertaining and beautiful football.

We have the highest ticket prices in world football for a stadium that has held success back from the club for over a decade and kept most of its proper fans from even going to a game since it's been built.

The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point to one thing WENGER OUT

We have paid for a football stadium and they are still building one, we get 60,000 in our ground each week against their fluctuating number between 30,000 and 34,000.

It's why a 18,000 - seat high school football stadium was built in Allen, Texas, just a couple years ago.

Unless two - thirds of San Diego voters approve a ballot initiative on Nov. 8 to raise $ 350 million to help build a new downtown football stadium, the Chargers likely will leave San Diego after this season and eventually play as the second team in Rams owner Stan Kroenke's football complex in L.A. beginning in 2019.

The King Power Stadium is a 32,500 seater stadium which was built in 2002 as the new home of Leicester City Football Club, located a short distance from their previous stadium, Filbert Street.

When Sir Henry Norris took over Woolwich Arsenal in 1910, from his personal wealth he paid off the clubs significant debts, paid for the building of Highbury stadium, appointed Herbert Chapman, backed him financially and was eventually banned from football for life while at Arsenal because of illegal payments to players.

Paul Fletcher, who has built or been involved in the design of more than 30 new grounds, says the stadium should always have been designed as a football venue with temporary provision made for the 2012 London Olympics.

The club has an ambitious project to build a new stadium and they had no choice but to play European football away from White Hart Lane this season, but it would have surely been different in N17.

West Ham's London Stadium should be knocked down and rebuilt as a purpose - built football venue, says an expert in stadium design.

From Men in Blazers: Rog talks with President of Atlanta United FC Darren Eales about building a football club and its culture from scratch, going inside each step, from earning fans, to luring a manager / players, to settling into a new stadium.

We've had longer trophy droughts in the club's history and if we look at the team like Juventus, who have also built a new stadium (that isn't as big as ours) but have also been relegated, had their reputation tarnished and also missed out on European football last season.

«But to build a stadium with less football seats than the stadium that's now in existence, I've never heard of that before,» DeFrancisco said.

DeCerbo, who earned $ 85,913 in 2012, also helped secure new offices and housing south of Gotham West, after Mayor Bloomberg's push to build a football stadium failed.

Legislator Dixon joined 21 other state, county and local officials and sent a letter to Lt. Governor Robert Duffy, Bills President and CEO Russ Brandon and County Executive Mark Poloncarz, requesting that the New Stadium Working Group, «communicate openly, honestly and accurately with their constituents concerning potentially the biggest public - private partnership (building a new professional football or multipurpose stadium) in a generation.»

At the University of Maryland in College Park, a huge football stadium looms over the brick building that houses the astronomy department.

You can go to a football field and do stadium stairs, any building that has stairs like a hotel (most people take the elevator, so you will not even have many people looking at you while you're working out), or even the stairs in your own home.

He flies over devastated landmarks, walks atop the buried buildings of New York City (which, conveniently enough, is interred up to the observation deck of its iconic skyscraper), and recalls the story of the final football game played in the rubble of a stadium.

Though thwarted in his attempt to build a football stadium or lure the Olympics there, he spearheaded several successes, including the creation of the High Line, the extension of the 7 train, the construction of the new Signature Theater and the move downtown of the Whitney Museum of American Art.